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Teresa Torres 27 Episodes Oct 1, 2026

How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.

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Generating Opportunity Solution Trees with AI: How Vistaly Rebuilt Its Product Around Interview Synthesis, Evals, and Re Oct 1, 2026 4799 What happens when you hand your opportunity solution tree to an AI? Vistaly rebuilt its entire product to find out—and the agents were the easy part. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matt O'Connell (Co-Founder and CEO), CP Dehli (Co-Founder), and Steve Klein (Co-Founder) at Vistaly, a company Teresa partners with and builds for. V1 was a purpose-built canvas for cont

Creating Aha! Builder: Concept to Code, No Engineers Required Sep 17, 2026 3994 What does it take to build an AI app builder specifically for product managers—not engineers—inside an already crowded market? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Brian De Haaff (CEO and Co-Founder), Chris Waters (CTO and Co-Founder), and Sarah Moisan-Thomas (Senior Product Manager) about Aha! Builder, Aha!'s AI-powered app builder built for product managers. Aha! is a

Building AI for Women's Health: How Hertility Combined Bayesian Diagnosis and Scan Automation Jul 23, 2026 3841 How do you build trustworthy AI diagnostic tools in one of medicine's most historically under-researched areas? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Tulsi Patel (Director of Product and Technology), Lorna Brightmore (Head of Data and AI), and Jack Pickard (Head of Engineering) at Hertility, a UK and Ireland-based women's health tech company. Hertility combines an in-dept

From COVID Pivot to AI World Building: How Snapbar Reinvented the Photo Experience Jul 9, 2026 4461 What does it take to reinvent a 14-year-old company—not once, but twice? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Sam Eitzen (Co-founder & CEO), Joe Eitzen (Co-founder & CPO), and Patrick Ellis (CTO) of Snapbar about one of the most unexpected pivots in the generative AI era. What started as a wedding photo booth side hustle became a national events company—and then COVID wi

Is This Okay? How Override Labs Built a Safety-First AI Consent Coach for Teen Boys Jun 25, 2026 3309 What if AI could help prevent sexual assault before it happens — without tracking users, judging them, or handing them a verdict? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Priya Nakra (Founder and Product Lead) and Olivia Rowley (AI Advisor and Board Member) of Override Labs, a nonprofit building technology to prevent gender-based violence. Their flagship product, *Is This Ok

Beyond Black Box Scores: How Musubi Trains Custom AI for Trust and Safety Teams Jun 11, 2026 4360 What do you do when off-the-shelf moderation scores aren't good enough—and the alternative is paying human contractors to spend their days reviewing traumatizing content at scale? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Nikki Marinsek (Data Scientist), Brian McCaffrey (Software Engineer), and Dan Means (Machine Learning Engineer) from Musubi, an AI-native trust and safety t

Building Lorikeet: How AI Humility and a Dual-Agent Architecture Are Redefining Customer Support May 28, 2026 4095 What does it take to build an AI customer support agent that actually knows when it can't help — and says so? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Jamie Hall (Co-founder & CTO), Xharmagne Carandang (Product Engineer), and Rona Wang (Product Engineer) of Lorikeet, a startup building AI customer support concierge agents for businesses in regulated industries. Lorikeet's vi

Building Rhea's Factory: How AI-Designed Enzymes Could Finally Solve Plastic Recycling May 14, 2026 4222 Only 10% of the plastic we manufacture gets recycled. We've been trying to solve this for a hundred years using the same mechanical and chemical tools that created the problem. What if biology—specifically, engineered enzymes—is the missing piece? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Arzu Sandıkçı (co-founder and CEO) and Mert Topcu (co-founder) of Rhea's Factory, a star

Building AI Employees for Hospitality: How AITropos Takes Orders Where Customers Already Are Apr 30, 2026 4061 What does it take to build an AI that can take a food order over WhatsApp — correctly, every time, fast enough that customers can't tell it's not a person? That's the core challenge Santi Marchiori and Juan Haedo set out to solve at AITropos, a company building AI employees for the hospitality industry. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Santi Marchiori (CEO) and Juan

Building Todoist Ramble: How Doist Turned Voice Braindumps into Real-Time Task Capture Apr 16, 2026 3640 How do you turn a rambling stream of consciousness into a clean task list — while the person is still talking? That's the core challenge Doist solved with Ramble, a voice-to-task feature inside Todoist that uses live audio AI to capture tasks in real time, no transcription step required. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Ernesto Garcia (Front-end Product Engineer), Th

Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design Apr 2, 2026 4210 What if the future of product design isn't about replacing designers — it's about giving every team access to one? For solo founders, stretched design teams, and early-stage startups, great UX has always been out of reach. Banani is trying to change that by building an AI product designer that doesn't just generate code — it generates design. In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres

Building Agent Studio: How Medable Is Using Agentic AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials Mar 19, 2026 3973 What if AI could help reduce the 10-plus years it takes to get a new drug to market? That's the driving ambition behind Medable's agentic platform—and the bet that led them to build Agent Studio. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with four members of the Medable team: Luke Bates (Product Leader, Agent Studio), Jen Brown (Product Manager), Matt Schoolfield (Product Designer

Building GitHub for Product Management: How Momental Uses AI to Find Merge Conflicts in Strategy Mar 5, 2026 3886 What if an AI could spot the moment two product teams start pulling in opposite directions -- before it derails a quarter? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about their vision for building what they call "GitHub for product management." Momental ingests documents, meeting transcripts, and voice recordings acros

Building AI Sales Reps: How ShowMe Orchestrates Voice, Video, and Multi-Agent Workflows to Close Deals Feb 19, 2026 3838 What happens when you treat an AI agent not as a chatbot, but as a full teammate on your sales team -- one that can jump on video calls, demo your product, make phone calls, and follow up over days? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Yuri Vela Tulupov (Co-Founder and CEO) and Quique Gomez (Co-Founder and Lead Product Engineering) from ShowMe, an AI-native startup build

Building Earmark: How a Two-Person Team Turned Meetings into Finished Work Feb 5, 2026 3607 What if your meetings could actually produce the artifacts you need—specs, tickets, slides—before the call even ends? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Mark Barbir (CEO) and Sanden Gocka (Co-Founder), the co-founders of Earmark, about building a productivity suite that turns unstructured conversations into finished work in real time. Unlike generic AI notetakers that

When Trust Is Everything: Building AI for Physicians at Healio Jan 22, 2026 2946 How do you build an AI product for an audience that can't afford to be wrong—and won't trust you until you prove it? In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with three leaders from Healio—Jennifer Deal (SVP of Product Development), Casey Utley (Senior UX Designer), and Matthew Skepner (VP of Technology)—about how their 125-year-old medical publishing company built Healio AI, a

Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes Jan 15, 2026 3946 When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire building), figure out which products are relevant, look up pricing, and draft a quote—all before the deadline. It's tedious, error-prone, and surprisingly manual. In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Daniel Kappler (CTO,

Building a Career Co-pilot for Disadvantaged Students: How Zero Gravity Bridges Knowing and Doing Jan 8, 2026 4184 How do you help disadvantaged students take action on opportunities they don't even know exist? In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Elliot Little (Product Manager) and Dan St. Paul (Software Engineer) from Zero Gravity, a UK-based platform that helps state school students access elite career opportunities through mentoring, community, and learning pathways. They've bu

Automating the Full Customer Support Iceberg: How Gradient Labs Built a Multi-Agent Platform Dec 18, 2025 3687 What happens when a customer reports a stolen credit card? The frontline answer is simple—freeze it. But underneath lies a cascade of follow-ups: dispute filings, fraud investigations, merchant communications, and proactive outreach to gather more details. Most AI support tools handle only the tip of the iceberg. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Jack Taylor (Product Engineer) and Ibrahim

Building Mowie: How a Concierge Service Became an AI Marketing Platform Dec 11, 2025 4076 What if your small business could have a full marketing team—automated content calendars, customer segmentation, and channel-specific posts—without the headcount? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Chris O'Connor (CEO) and Jessica Valenzuela (Co-Founder) of Mowie, an AI marketing platform built for small and medium-sized businesses in restaurants, retail, and e-commerc

From Prototype to Production: How Perk Built a Voice AI Agent That Makes 10,000 Calls a Week Dec 4, 2025 3275 What happens when you combine a real customer problem, a no-code prototype, and a team willing to listen to every single call? In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Steven Payne (Product Manager), Gabriel Stock (Senior Engineering Manager), and Philipe Steiff (Senior Software Engineer) from Perk—a company that helps businesses eliminate "shadow work" like travel booking

Building an AI Sleep Coach: How Rest is Making CBTI Principles Accessible to DIY Sleep Hackers Nov 20, 2025 4004 What if you could get personalized sleep coaching—inspired by the same principles that cost thousands of dollars and have year-and-a-half waitlists—through a voice AI that checks in with you every morning? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Martin Siniawski (CEO and co-founder) and Ignacio (CTO) from Rest about how they built an AI sleep coach inspired by Cognitive Beh

Turning Vendor Chaos into Answers: How Xelix Built an AI Helpdesk Nov 13, 2025 3217 Accounts payable inboxes can see 1,000+ vendor emails a day. Xelix's new Helpdesk turns that chaos into structured tickets, enriched with ERP data, and pre-drafted replies—complete with confidence scores. In this episode, Claire Smid (AI Engineer), Emilija Gransaull (Back-End Tech Lead), and **Talal A.** (Product Manager) walk us through how they scoped the problem, prototyped with “daily slices

When AI Becomes Your SRE: How Incident.io Is Automating Incident Response Nov 6, 2025 4106 When your site goes down, every second counts. For years, Incident.io has helped engineering teams coordinate through chaos—getting the right people in the room, keeping stakeholders informed, and restoring order fast. Now, they’re building something new: an AI SRE that can actually help diagnose and respond to incidents. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Lawrence Jones (Founding Enginee

Building Trainline’s AI Travel Assistant: How a 25-Year-Old Company Went Agentic Oct 30, 2025 4114 Trainline—the world’s leading rail and coach platform—helps millions of travelers get from point A to point B. Now, they’re using AI to make every step of the journey smoother. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with David Eason (Principal Product Manager) Billie Bradley (Product Manager), and Matt Farrelly (Head of AI and Machine Learning) from Trainline about how they built Travel Assistant,

Powering Government with Community Voices: How ZenCity Built an AI That Listens Oct 23, 2025 4078 How do you use AI to help city leaders truly hear their residents? In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Noa Reikhav (SVP of Product), Andrew Therriault (VP of Data Science), and Shota Papiashvili (SVP of R&D) from Zencity, a company that powers government decision-making with community voices. They share how Zencity brings together survey data, 311 calls, social media, and local news into

Building AI Coworkers: How Neople Is Making Agents Work Where You Work Oct 16, 2025 4345 What if your next teammate was an AI coworker — one that could answer support tickets, process invoices, or even draft your next email — and your _non-technical_ colleagues could teach it how to do those tasks themselves? In this episode, host Teresa Torres talks with Seyna Diop (CPO), Job Nijenhuis (CTO & Co-founder), and Christos C. (Lead Design Engineer) of Neople, a company creating “digital

Building Alyx: How Arize AI Dogfooded Its Way to an Agentic Future Oct 9, 2025 2967 What does it really take to build an AI agent inside an AI platform—especially when you’re using that same platform to build the agent? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with SallyAnn DeLucia (Director of Product at Arize) and Jack Zhou (Staff Engineer at Arize) about the journey of building Alyx, their AI agent designed to help teams debug, optimize, and evaluate AI appli

Debugging AI Products: From Data Leakage to Evals with Hamel Husain Oct 2, 2025 5201 How do you know if your AI product is actually any good? Hamel Husain has been answering that question for over 25 years. As a former machine learning engineer and data scientist at Airbnb and GitHub (where he worked on research that paved the way for GitHub Copilot), Hamel has spent his career helping teams debug, measure, and systematically improve complex systems. In this episode, Hamel joins

Inside eSpark’s AI Teacher Assistant: RAG, Evals, and Real Classroom Needs Sep 25, 2025 4118 How do you build an AI-powered assistant that teachers will actually use? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Thom van der Doef (Principal Product Designer), Mary Gurley (Director of Learning Design & Product Manager), and Ray Lyons (VP of Product & Engineering) from eSpark. Together, they’ve spent more than a decade building adaptive learning tools for K–5 classrooms—a

Turning Disruption into Opportunity: The Stack Overflow AI Story with Ellen Brandenberger Sep 18, 2025 4053 When ChatGPT launched, Stack Overflow faced a cataclysmic shift: developer behavior was changing overnight. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Ellen Brandenburger, former product leader at Stack Overflow, about how her team navigated the disruption, prototyped AI features, and eventually built an entirely new business line. Ellen shares the inside story of Overflow AI—from the first scrapp

Podcast Preview Sep 10, 2025 113 How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.

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